There has been a wide range of literature, news and information generated in the last three months on the impacts of COVID19 on our natural environment, some negative and some surprisingly positive…
Here is a recent paper on the impact of COVID19 on small scale fisheries and coastal communities.the main message is to ‘urge governments, development organizations, NGOs, donors, the private sector, and researchers to rapidly mobilize in support of small-scale fishers, coastal fishing communities, and associated civil society organizations, and suggest actions that can be taken by each to help these groups respond to the COVID-19 pandemic’ : https://pipap.sprep.org/content/covid-19-pandemic-small-scale-fisheries-and-coastal-fishing-communities
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here is something along the positive angle of the pandemic, where global carbon emissions had dropped during the global lockdown period. Recent research showed that daily emissions decreased by 17% - or 17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide—globally during the peak of the confinement measures in early April compared to mean daily levels in 2019, dropping to levels last observed in 2006 : https://pipap.sprep.org/news/covid-19-crisis-causes-17-drop-global-carbon-emissions-study
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This is a shift of focus to international instruments and their perceived failure to prevent the pandemic, in this case the CITES Convention. The main take home message is that CITES needs to widen its scope over and above just the regulation of trade, to also include the protection or regulation of the use within national states of the 36,000 species listed on its database : https://pipap.sprep.org/news/why-wildlife-trade-convention-failed-prevent-covid-19
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Interesting concept and would be a completely different focus for CITES convention.
@Karen_Baird what do you think of this suggestion?